Infinite Limits

E-Lit Example

         The Electronic Literature example that best fits my analogy, emblem, and ideas on lightness is one called Storyland by Nanette Wylde. This E-lit example relates to Calvino’s ideals because it portrays his idea that meaning is conveyed through verbal texts that seem weightless and there certainly is a flexibility to the story. Storyland is a random narrative created to play with social stereotypes and elements of popular culture. Since each sentence is constructed from a variety of possibilities, allowing each reader a unique story, it relates to Calvino’s idea of weightlessness and flexibility. The reader presses the “new story” button, and a story is created at that exact moment and then it is very unlikely for any two stories to be identical. The flexibility of these stories is what makes it so like the ideas of lightness portrayed in my emblem and analogies because the light weight of the changing stories is just like that of wood floating on water or an individual water skiing. Also, since each story is never exactly the same, this E-lit relates to how each mass of wood is never the same nor is the way it floats. Even the process of water skiing can never be identical since each person has different abilities and weight. 

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